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...winds of fortune blow kindly, Raul Gardini will be remembered as a shining symbol of his age, a captain of industry and a world-class sailor who piloted both his companies and his million-dollar yachts with joyous abandon. He worked hard for 60 years to cultivate that image, in a land where myths ripen richly and image often counts more than fact...
There are those who argue that some of the ethnic cleansing that has put hundreds of thousands of Bosnians to flight can be undone -- and can be prevented from happening again. Wohlstetter and others contend that Washington has been too quick to abandon its option of "lift and strike" -- lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims and strike at mainly Serbian heavy weapons with aircraft and limited ground forces. But it may be too late for that, with Sarajevo on the verge of defeat. In any case, the lift option is vehemently opposed by all of Europe except Germany...
...Compaq, Dell and Apple are floundering; profits are plunging, margins squeezed. Last month one of the personal-computer industry's leading lights -- the pioneering Tandy Corp. -- became a prominent casualty. Faced with $52 million in losses in the past year and an even bloodier future, Tandy decided to abandon the PC business, which accounted for 10% of its sales last year. The company simply could not survive the intense price competition...
While these ads are gaining minor press coverage, they aren't prompting floods of complaint calls to the members accused of raising taxes with reckless abandon. Maybe that's because the ads' creators--who spice their copy with the sounds of cash registers and chomping dinosaurs, the strains of a take-off from the "Jaws" theme--have chose the wrong genre. Attack ads don't turn heads because they're more of the same...
Clinton's cave-in may cost him other allies as well, since those who supported him on the BTU tax were feeling duped. Moderate House Democrats who voted for the tax in late May only to watch the President abandon it without a fight last week, were beginning to liken themselves to Charlie Brown and Clinton to Lucy with the football. "I remember the President telling us specifically that if we went out on a limb over the BTU tax," said Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York, "he would be there with us. But now we don't even know...